[Foxgui-users]Methods vs messages

[GORIS M. <Mal.Goris@Tenix.com>]

Hi=20

I am trying to understand whether it is better to use methods or messages t=
o modify a widget.  For example, a user makes a selection in "FXComboBox *m=
yComboBox" and within the "onCmdComboBox" function I retrieve a "char *str"=
 from a database which I want to display in "FXTextField *myTextField".  Th=
en, should I do

myTextField->setText(str);

or should I do

myTextField->handle(myComboBox, FXSEL(SEL_COMMAND, ID_DELETE_ALL), NULL);
myTextField->handle(myComboBox, FXSEL(SEL_COMMAND, ID_INSERT_STRING), (void=
*) str);

I am guessing that the myTextField->handle way queues the messages to be de=
alt with at leisure, allowing the application to be more responsive to user=
 input.  But is it going overboard to use messages when a simple myTextFiel=
d->setText will suffice?

Recommendations, anyone?

Yours Confusedly,
Mal Goris